Bryson Bill

Oryginalna i błyskotliwie napisana książka, z której dowiadujemy się, czym jest świat materialny - od najmniejszego kwarka po największą galaktykę.Wyzwanie, przed którym stanął Bill Bryson, polegało na tym, aby tematy, które zwykle u większości z czytelników wywołują śmiertelną nudę, jak geologia, chemia lub fizyka cząstek, uczynić przystępnymi dla...

Wyprawy Billa Brysona to najlepsza rozrywka pod słońcem. Najnowszym reportażem autor broni tytuł mistrza literatury podróżniczej... i króla ciętego dowcipu!Herbatka o piątej! to uroczy i zabawny, ale i uszczypliwy pean miłosny na cześć Wielkiej Brytanii. Ukazuje się niemal dwadzieścia lat po bestsellerowym klasyku literatury podróżniczej -...

Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND became one of the most loved books of recent decades. Now, in his first travel book for 15 years, he sets out again on a long-awaited brand-new...

As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In...

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal...

'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary...